Making Spaces Through Infrastructure: Visions, Technologies, and Tensions

ISBN 10: 3111191095 / ISBN 13: 9783111191096

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Spaces Through Infrastructure: Visions, Technologies, and Tensions
• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3111191095
• ISBN 13: 9783111191096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.

About the Author

Marian Burchardt, Leipzig University, Leipzig; Dirk van Laak, Leipzig University, Leipzig.